| In cases of autistic children usually something is wrong | | | | people affected by autism may present the following |
| by the time the child is 18 months old and requires help | | | | symptoms: show a lack an empathy, difficulty in |
| by the time the child is 2. Children with autism have | | | | making friends, prefer to spend time alone rather than |
| difficulties in verbal and non-verbal communication, | | | | with others, lack of social cues such as eye contact or |
| social interactions and pretend play. In some cases | | | | smiles. In what concerns sensitivity discussion about |
| aggression-toward others or self-may appear. | | | | sensory impairment can contain the following: |
| Some children with autism seem normal before age 1 | | | | heightened or decreased senses of sight, hearing, |
| or 2 and then regress and lose language or social skills. | | | | touch, smell or taste, mouth objects, rubs surfaces, |
| This is named the regressive type of autism. Body | | | | diminished, response to pain, physical contact because |
| movements, unusual attachments to objects or unusual | | | | it is over stimulating or over whelming. |
| distress when routines are changed may be | | | | The majority of children with autism show a |
| performed by people with autism. | | | | decreased level of pretend or imaginative play, a |
| Sensitivities in the senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell | | | | decreased level of imitation of the actions of the |
| or test may be experienced by people with autism. | | | | others and they prefer solitary or ritualistic play. Their |
| Because of the sensitivities of their skin children with | | | | behaviors may be: repetitive body movements, a |
| autism will refuse to wear "itchy" clothes. The following | | | | strong need for sameness, "acts out" with intense |
| areas may be affected in a different degrees: | | | | tantrums, very narrow interests, an obsessive interest |
| communication, inability to start or sustain a | | | | in a single item, idea, activity or person, an apparent |
| conversation, repeated words, reverses pronouns, | | | | lack of common sense. |
| nonsense rhyming, communication with gestures | | | | Recent studies have shown that children with autism |
| instead of words, short attention, span. | | | | are treated like normal people, but unfortunately they |
| From the point of view of the social interaction the | | | | live in their own world. |